http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:48:06 GMT DZone Snippets: feeds code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1611 without using http_proxy environment variable.. <br /> <br /><code>import urllib2, feedparser <br /> <br />proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler( {"http":"http://your.proxy.here:8080/"} ) <br />d = feedparser.parse('http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/atom10.xml', handlers = [proxy])</code> Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:53:19 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1611 peter (Peter Cooperx) http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/450 If you're building RSS 2.0 files with .rxml files on your Rails app, this sort of line will get you a valid date/time: <br /> <br /><code>xml.pubDate(p.updated_at.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z"))</code> <br /> <br />If you're just using strftime someplace else, perhaps in PHP, try: <br /> <br /><code>strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")</code> Mon, 04 Jul 2005 03:22:02 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/450 peter (Peter Cooperx) http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/262 <code>https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom</code> Sat, 07 May 2005 22:45:40 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/262 peter (Peter Cooperx)